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Strategies for a discontinuous future.





Consulting & advisory, research notes, in the press, about bubblegen,
next wednesdays.





Wednesday, November 19, 2003
 


MSN Newsbot proves once again that Microsoft's deepest competence is...imitation. It's a blatant ripoff of Google News. Just like Wallop is a not-so-subtle imitation of countless bits of social software. Just like MSTunes is gonna be a blatant ripoff of iTunes. Just like Excel was a...never mind.

Of course, the strategy only works because Microsoft owns a resource nobody else does.

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